"neato" meaning in English

See neato in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

IPA: /ˈnitoʊ/ [General-American], [ˈniɾoʊ̯] [General-American] Audio: En-au-neato.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: neat + -o Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|neat|o}} neat + -o Head templates: {{en-interj}} neato
  1. (colloquial, slang) Neat (in the sense of being excellent or desirable). Tags: colloquial, slang Derived forms: neato burrito, neato mosquito, neato torpedo
    Sense id: en-neato-en-intj-jYHgihA9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -o

Download JSON data for neato meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "neat",
        "3": "o"
      },
      "expansion": "neat + -o",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "neat + -o",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "neato",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -o",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "neato burrito"
        },
        {
          "word": "neato mosquito"
        },
        {
          "word": "neato torpedo"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Oh, neato! My car is fixed.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Neat (in the sense of being excellent or desirable)."
      ],
      "id": "en-neato-en-intj-jYHgihA9",
      "links": [
        [
          "Neat",
          "neat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, slang) Neat (in the sense of being excellent or desirable)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnitoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈniɾoʊ̯]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-neato.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/En-au-neato.ogg/En-au-neato.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-au-neato.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "neato"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "neato burrito"
    },
    {
      "word": "neato mosquito"
    },
    {
      "word": "neato torpedo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "neat",
        "3": "o"
      },
      "expansion": "neat + -o",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "neat + -o",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "neato",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
        "English slang",
        "English terms suffixed with -o",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Oh, neato! My car is fixed.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Neat (in the sense of being excellent or desirable)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Neat",
          "neat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, slang) Neat (in the sense of being excellent or desirable)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnitoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈniɾoʊ̯]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-neato.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/En-au-neato.ogg/En-au-neato.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-au-neato.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "neato"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.